Yet another hydro assist question

[1976Blazer76]

I've been searching and I've yet to come up with the answer I'm looking for. When setting up my hydro assist, do I want the ram to stop before it hits my mechanical stops. That sounds like the way to go because the hyraulic will push through my mechanical stops correct? Yet, I don't want to stop before my mechanical stops do I? Because that will make all the pressure at full steer to be on my hydraulic.

 

[wayne]

The ram will be your stops. You can take the factory ones off the axle.

 

[1976Blazer76]

The ram will be your stops. You can take the factory ones off the axle.

Thats what I was thinking, thanks.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Using the ram to limit your steering travel is just like using shocks to limit your suspension travel. Lots of people do it, and there are some that break shocks/rams because they do it. The correct way is to have the ram and the steering stops on the knuckle bottom out at the same time.

 

[wayne]

Using the ram to limit your steering travel is just like using shocks to limit your suspension travel. Lots of people do it, and there are some that break shocks/rams because they do it. The correct way is to have the ram and the steering stops on the knuckle bottom out at the same time.

A hydro ram is nothing even close to a shock. Hmm, when I bought my hydro set up back in 2003 the instructions even said the ram is now going to be the steering stop.

 

[Leper]

Set it up where they stop at the same point.